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Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by xxs on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:44AM (#26658392)
>How many dead xboxes and PlayStations have chips in them that are still good?

Those things have one big APU (with weak CPU cores), some VRM and memory, GDDR5 + useless DDR3. I'd discount the APU as it'd need someone to make OS support for with the blessing of Sony/Microsoft. That leaves the chips of GDDR5, which can be used by low end GPUs - I don't think they'd ever recoup and investment and likely cheap manual labor of preheat + hot air is the easier option. No idea if anyone would get a license from AMD or NVidia for such GPU.

Edit: the capacitors would have the best value but well... I cant see anyone relying on old caps for anything but repair.

Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by eptcyka on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:07AM (#26658535)
You can buy a motherboard with the xbone apu in China and run windows 10 on it. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16336/installing-windows-on-a...